The Brooke Through the Lens - private view

20 Jan 2014

Monday 20 January 2014

Richard Dunwoody has been spending his retirement from racing wisely. He has been all around the world photographing working horses for the horse charity The Brooke, and the results have just gone on show. At the exhibition's private view at the Crypt at St Martin's-in-the-Field, the great and the good of the racing world, among them Sir Peter O'Sullivan, Brough Scott, Nigel Payne, piled in to celebrate, with glasses of wine and neat little canapés (all vegetarian - Brooke is an animal welfare charity, after all). When Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter took to the mic to give a speech, the sound system packed out. Unperturbed, he bellowed out his speech for all 200-plus guests to hear, as did Richard himself, who spoke next. Most exhibits sold that night, with Richard receiving rapturous praise in person and in the guest book. Next time, they proclaimed, his work will be on display across the road - at the National Gallery.